Prior to working in the private sector, she spent nearly a decade on Capitol Hill, guiding strategy and policy for the U.S. House Committee on Science and Technology and playing a lead role in the creation of the Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA-E) as well as clean energy programs in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA), and Department of Energy R&D programs focused on fossil fuels, nuclear, renewable energy, biofuels, and smart grid technologies.

Alisa holds a B.S.F.S., cum laude, from the Georgetown University Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service. She is based in Los Angeles.